Cisco hits the targets in fiscal Q3 |
- Cisco hits the targets in fiscal Q3
- Kim Dotcom to hit the big screen
- Papua New Guinean tongue saved from extinction?
- WD bigshots spin superfast disk roadmap
- Amazon takes on Microsoft Azure head on
- Red faces abound as boffins build gamma ray lens
- SSD sweetheart STEC swings to Q1 loss
- Dell gives microservers an Ivy Bridge boost
- Billion-dollar high-tech ghost town to run itself without humans
- Biz prof disses Big Data as a fetish for info hoarders
- PayPal beds Softbank to spawn mobile cash in Japan
- Sony pops top on 13Mp Xperia
- Yahoo! director! bows! out! after! CEO! CV! blunder!
- Apple orders 10in iPad, moles claim implausibly
- Three kingpin: Mobe termination-charge cuts can't hurt us
- US telly overlords retreat from White Space invaders
- Miniature woolly mammoths once roamed Crete
- Telefonica touts new free VoIP app to cut off rival Skype
- Carmageddon coder seeks gamers' cash for revamp
- PHP devs lob second patch at super-critical CGI bug
- UK recession rattles Sage's cage as revenue growth flattens
- Cisco hits the roof in Olympics marketing dash
- Queen unveils draft internet super-snoop bill - with clauses
- Hated Visual Studio 11 beta in HIGH-ENERGY colour blast
- Cloud data fiasco forces bosses to break out the whiteboards
- BT outage kills phone lines in Eastbourne and Brighton
- Samsung outs Ivy Bridge notebooks
- Leaked Twitter accounts 'mostly banned spammers'
- RIM's new BlackBerry Curve 9320 tempts teens
- Head over Heels
- HP intros not-quite-Ultrabook Sleekbook laptops
- Scandal ad slingers cough up $100k in 'Facebook clickjack' case
- US court tosses out Proview's IPAD trademark gripe
- Jetting off abroad? Pack protection ... for your Wi-Fi
- Virgin Media site goes titsup in Pirate Bay payback attack
- Speaking in Tech: VMware polishes post-PC virty tools
- Advertising prefect spanks Virgin
- Apple's HTML5 bet against Android extermination
- Kelvin MacKenzie blasts 'footie rights warehouse' BSkyB
- FalconStor accelerates dedupe, drives finances over a cliff
- MPs: Unified EU patent court framework would hurt small biz
- NHS rolls out open-source test results service for renal patients
- Twitter turns to feature phones for world domination
- Microsoft makes carbon neutrality pledge
- Sony Vaio L VPCL22V1E 3D PC
- Asia Likes Facebook, but friends in China are harder to find
- AMD's Hondo APUs ready for Windows 8 Q4 launch - report
- Broadcasters get cash for vacating LTE spectrum
- Let’s send 3D printers TO THE MOON
- VMware CTO reveals future directions in VMUG vid
| Cisco hits the targets in fiscal Q3 Posted: 09 May 2012 03:37 PM PDT Ready to fight Huawei in China or anywhere elseNetworking giant and systems player Cisco Systems hit its revenue and profit targets for the third quarter of its fiscal 2012 ended in April, but will probably take a few lumps because of the candor of CEO John Chambers in saying that there are still areas of uncertainty in parts of the global economy and that it is facing tough competition from China's Huawei Technologies.… |
| Kim Dotcom to hit the big screen Posted: 09 May 2012 03:09 PM PDT Megaupload founder about to get downloadedKiwi Kim Dotcom is to be given the Hollywood treatment in a documentary feature production with the working title of Mega Conspiracy.… |
| Papua New Guinean tongue saved from extinction? Posted: 09 May 2012 02:00 PM PDT Recently deceased language preserved onlineAn anthropologist from the University of Virginia is using a hybrid of modern communications platforms to resurrect Arapesh, a defunct language from Papua New Guinea.… |
| WD bigshots spin superfast disk roadmap Posted: 09 May 2012 01:06 PM PDT Hybrids and tech transitionsWestern Digital's disk drive roadmap has hybrids and tech transitions coming to shrink I/O latency and regain fast areal density growth.… |
| Amazon takes on Microsoft Azure head on Posted: 09 May 2012 01:04 PM PDT Ballmer-less elastic SQL Server and .NET frameworksIf you are thinking about deploying .NET applications on a platform cloud and whacking them against an SQL Server database embedded in that platform cloud, Microsoft's The Cloud Formerly Known As Azure is not your only option. Amazon Web Services has fired up its own analog to Azure.… |
| Red faces abound as boffins build gamma ray lens Posted: 09 May 2012 01:04 PM PDT Focusing on targets near and farScientists have disproved a chunk of theoretical physics by building a series of lenses capable of focusing gamma rays.… |
| SSD sweetheart STEC swings to Q1 loss Posted: 09 May 2012 12:00 PM PDT First mover disadvantages for industry pioneerIf ever you needed a salutory tale about the perils of sitting on your laurels, then STEC, once EMC's SSD darling and pioneering enterprise flash high flier, can provide it in spades. First movers have got to be fast and STEC was unconscionably slow.… |
| Dell gives microservers an Ivy Bridge boost Posted: 09 May 2012 11:04 AM PDT Cloudy things come in smaller thermal packagesDell's PowerEdge server line is once again trying to get out in front of Intel, announcing that its PowerEdge-C family of microservers are revved up with the new Ivy Bridge Xeon E3 processors, which the chip giant is launching soon.… |
| Billion-dollar high-tech ghost town to run itself without humans Posted: 09 May 2012 10:03 AM PDT Uninhabited 'smart city' will be boffins' playgroundA site in New Mexico, near the city of Hobbs in Lea County, has been chosen as the place to build a shiny new city with all the latest mod cons, smart tech and cool gear, but there's not going to be anyone there to enjoy them, the Associated Press reported.… |
| Biz prof disses Big Data as a fetish for info hoarders Posted: 09 May 2012 09:02 AM PDT Not a good model for success, says docHPC blog When it comes to Big Data, I'm as geeked out as the next guy – if not a little more so. For the last three years or so, I've been telling anyone who will listen (and plenty of people who won't) that Big Data and enterprise analytics are the "next big thing" both in business and computing. Today, it's widely accepted that Big Data is going to make big changes to our world.… |
| PayPal beds Softbank to spawn mobile cash in Japan Posted: 09 May 2012 08:54 AM PDT New joint venture will make Japanese mobes into walletsPayPal has launched a joint venture with Japanese internet and mobile firm Softbank to build a digital payments business in the country.… |
| Posted: 09 May 2012 08:32 AM PDT Takes smartphones into LTE territory tooSony unveiled two LTE-supporting Xperia smartphones today, although with the UK still blighted by a lack of 4G, they'll only be big in Japan for the time being.… |
| Yahoo! director! bows! out! after! CEO! CV! blunder! Posted: 09 May 2012 08:27 AM PDT Board sets up three-man team to investigate ThompsonThe Yahoo! director who led the search for CEO Scott Thompson has said she won't be standing for re-election to the board as a new committee is appointed to look into his padded CV.… |
| Apple orders 10in iPad, moles claim implausibly Posted: 09 May 2012 08:13 AM PDT Rounding error?Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron, which already makes iPhones and iPads, has landed orders for the iPhone 5 and a ten-inch iPad, it has been claimed.… |
| Three kingpin: Mobe termination-charge cuts can't hurt us Posted: 09 May 2012 07:58 AM PDT Get on with 4G auction already, pleads UK cell challengerCuts to mobile termination rates (MTRs) are hurting the company that campaigned to get them cut – but not half as much as they are hurting its competitors. Three network's chief financial officer Richard Woodward said today he reckoned he'd be £130m better off if regulator Ofcom hadn't cut the rate.… |
| US telly overlords retreat from White Space invaders Posted: 09 May 2012 07:28 AM PDT This town is big enough for the both of themThe US National Association of Broadcasters has asked the courts to dismiss its own appeal against the FCC's decision to permit the exploitation of radio White Spaces - and not before time.… |
| Miniature woolly mammoths once roamed Crete Posted: 09 May 2012 06:48 AM PDT Dog-sized hippos, dumbos also wandered holiday paradiseMinute woolly mammoths roamed the Greek holiday island of Crete 1 to 2 million years ago, boffins have claimed after examining fossilised teeth and a leg bone.… |
| Telefonica touts new free VoIP app to cut off rival Skype Posted: 09 May 2012 06:32 AM PDT Telco bets future of mobile on TU MeTelefonica, owner of the O2 brand, has launched VoIP service TU Me across all its territories, and for all punters with an iPhone, as the telco bets on the future direction of mobile use.… |
| Carmageddon coder seeks gamers' cash for revamp Posted: 09 May 2012 06:24 AM PDT Driving licence to killFans of 1990s gore-racer Carmageddon had their engines heated up this week when developer Stainless Games called for public funding to help it reincarnate the franchise.… |
| PHP devs lob second patch at super-critical CGI bug Posted: 09 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT If at first you don't succeed, compile, compile againThe developers of PHP have released updates to thwart fresh attacks against systems that use the scripting language to dynamically generate web pages.… |
| UK recession rattles Sage's cage as revenue growth flattens Posted: 09 May 2012 05:44 AM PDT Abacus-sliding software pushers post H1 figuresThe Sage Group is keeping close tabs on the UK economy amid fears of the "exposed risk of a renewed recession".… |
| Cisco hits the roof in Olympics marketing dash Posted: 09 May 2012 05:32 AM PDT Not just 3D, but Fry-D™Pics Cisco has thrown open its Olympics hospitality suite, giving partners and customers both a panoramic view of the Olympic Park and an up-close, 3D view of Stephen Fry loitering on a London Underground platform.… |
| Queen unveils draft internet super-snoop bill - with clauses Posted: 09 May 2012 05:12 AM PDT Her Maj opens Parliamentary session with clear nod to CCDPThe Queen has detailed the government's upcoming programme of law-making on a grey day darkened by the gloom of a double-dip recession and plans to massively increase surveillance of the internet in the UK.… |
| Hated Visual Studio 11 beta in HIGH-ENERGY colour blast Posted: 09 May 2012 05:01 AM PDT I can C clearly now the grey has goneMicrosoft is breaking out the paints and giving the next Visual Studio a dash of colour after its drab John Major-inspired beta was branded hideous, monstrous and depressing by thousands of coders.… |
| Cloud data fiasco forces bosses to break out the whiteboards Posted: 09 May 2012 04:43 AM PDT Atlassian team-tracker outage caused by disk failureWorkers relying on Atlassian's cloudy team-tracking software have reverted to whiteboards and spreadsheets after a service outage made key project data vanish.… |
| BT outage kills phone lines in Eastbourne and Brighton Posted: 09 May 2012 04:24 AM PDT Sussex hospital, businesses, schools cut offBT phone lines were down for 20,000 customers in Brighton and Eastbourne this morning, cutting phone contact to businesses and homes and even preventing a patient from getting through to the Royal Sussex County Hospital.… |
| Samsung outs Ivy Bridge notebooks Posted: 09 May 2012 04:21 AM PDT Desktop replacementsTwo new 15.6in laptops are inbound from Samsung, each bearing an unannounced Intel Ivy Bridge processor, a third-gen Core i7 quad-core to be (a little) more precise.… |
| Leaked Twitter accounts 'mostly banned spammers' Posted: 09 May 2012 04:12 AM PDT Tweet site downplays dump of 55,000 passwordsTwitter has downplayed the significance of a data dump that leaked the login details of 55,000 twits.… |
| RIM's new BlackBerry Curve 9320 tempts teens Posted: 09 May 2012 04:01 AM PDT One-way CurveRIM churned out another BlackBerry this week: the Curve 9320, a low-cost Qwerty handset pitched at yoof.… |
| Posted: 09 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Cute creatures and perfidious puzzlesAntique Code Show Inspired no doubt by two years pondering the literal semantics of Tears For Fears' 1985 hit, Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond's Head Over Heels was an absolute masterful exploration game for the 8-bit era.… |
| HP intros not-quite-Ultrabook Sleekbook laptops Posted: 09 May 2012 03:48 AM PDT Reserves Ivy Bridge chippery for new Envy SpectreNot happy with the Ultrabook brand, or the notebook moniker? HP has a third: Sleekbook.… |
| Scandal ad slingers cough up $100k in 'Facebook clickjack' case Posted: 09 May 2012 03:42 AM PDT Marketing biz 'earning $1.2m a month' settles out of courtA marketing firm accused of running campaigns via a web of unscrupulous affiliates – who flooded Facebook with spam – has agreed to clean up its network. The business's owners settled a lawsuit brought against them and have denied any wrongdoing.… |
| US court tosses out Proview's IPAD trademark gripe Posted: 09 May 2012 03:17 AM PDT Monitor biz and Apple told to end spat in ChinaA US judge has thrown out the case brought by Proview that accused Apple of tricking it into selling the "IPAD" name for less than it should have.… |
| Jetting off abroad? Pack protection ... for your Wi-Fi Posted: 09 May 2012 03:01 AM PDT Feds warn of malware attacks on hotel net surfersA US government agency is warning travellers to be wary of malware that installs itself via pop-up browser windows on hotel internet connections.… |
| Virgin Media site goes titsup in Pirate Bay payback attack Posted: 09 May 2012 02:37 AM PDT Anonymous claims takedown victoryVirgin Media's main website dropped off the interwebs on Tuesday with hackivist collective Anonymous claiming responsibility for the DDoS attacks in response to the company's recent cut-off of The Pirate Bay.… |
| Speaking in Tech: VMware polishes post-PC virty tools Posted: 09 May 2012 02:19 AM PDT This time it's virtual...Podcast It's time for another Speaking in Tech enterprise and tech biz roundup, with The Dude of enterprise tech, Greg Knieriemen, cloud and storage meister Ed Saipetch and web2.0 insider Sarah Vela. Our special guest this week is John Mark Troyer, the director of social media evangelism at VMware.… |
| Advertising prefect spanks Virgin Posted: 09 May 2012 02:13 AM PDT 'I must not say my broadband is the fastest in the UK.' Whack. 'I must not...'Virgin Media must not claim it delivers "the UK's fastest broadband", the nation's advertising watchdog has judged.… |
| Apple's HTML5 bet against Android extermination Posted: 09 May 2012 02:02 AM PDT To be closed, one must support 'open'Open ... and Shut Harvard professor Clayton Christensen has more than 500 billion reasons to think he's wrong to suggest Apple is in for rough sailing, but he's not backing down. The father of disruption theory - a theory that Apple's former chief executive Steve Jobs claimed had a huge impact on his thinking - believes that Apple's end-to-end, integrated approach to innovation is susceptible to disruption from a more modular, open approach like that of Google's Android.… |
| Kelvin MacKenzie blasts 'footie rights warehouse' BSkyB Posted: 09 May 2012 01:32 AM PDT Battle for the Johnstone's Paint Trophy taken to OfcomThe latest onslaught against media baron Rupert Murdoch comes from an unlikely assailant. Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie says he'll lodge a complaint with Ofcom over BSkyB's exclusive ownership of football rights.… |
| FalconStor accelerates dedupe, drives finances over a cliff Posted: 09 May 2012 01:03 AM PDT Reliably cranking out continuing lossesComment FalconStor is cranking out $19m to $20m revenues per quarter, punctuated by regular Q4 spikes, but continually makes losses. Why isn't it a healthy business making steady profits and growing?… |
| MPs: Unified EU patent court framework would hurt small biz Posted: 09 May 2012 12:32 AM PDT Good in theory, but extra red tape will choke Blighty's SMBsA new court framework that would rule on validity and infringement cases stemming from proposed new unitary patents in the EU would be "prohibitively expensive" for small UK businesses to use, a committee of MPs has said.… |
| NHS rolls out open-source test results service for renal patients Posted: 09 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT UK-wide system lets kidney patients see results before doctors doPatients of 53 renal units across the UK are accessing results and clinical letters through a secure online system, often meaning they get the information faster than their GPs.… |
| Twitter turns to feature phones for world domination Posted: 08 May 2012 11:42 PM PDT Low-bandwidth web app sets up Facebook face-off beyond developed nationsTwitter has thrown a bone to users stuck with feature phones, odd and/or old browsers or low-bandwidth connections to the Net by updating its mobile webapp. And along the way it may also have made an important strategic move to capture users in the developing world.… |
| Microsoft makes carbon neutrality pledge Posted: 08 May 2012 11:04 PM PDT Divisions will be responsible for offsetting own emissionsMicrosoft's efforts to improve its less than stellar environmental credentials have received a boost with the news that the entire firm will be going carbon neutral as of 1 July.… |
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| Asia Likes Facebook, but friends in China are harder to find Posted: 08 May 2012 09:45 PM PDT India has stronger adoption than Indonesia ... for nowFacebook has added a whopping 20 million users to its South East Asia fan base over the past six months, bringing it ever closer to the magic figure of one billion globally, but Zuck and co. will be jealously eyeing China where home grown rivals continued to rapidly expand their social fiefdoms.… |
| AMD's Hondo APUs ready for Windows 8 Q4 launch - report Posted: 08 May 2012 09:40 PM PDT Chip giant's tablet-friendly silicon on the wayChip giant AMD is set to debut its 32nm Trinity APUs in notebooks later this month, while the firm's tablet-friendly Hondo chips will hit the streets in the fourth quarter to coincide with the much-anticipated launch of Windows 8, Digitimes has learnt.… |
| Broadcasters get cash for vacating LTE spectrum Posted: 08 May 2012 09:22 PM PDT Clearing the air for Australia's 2014 spectrum auctionsAustralia's free-to-air TV broadcasters and the publicly-owned ABC have been handed an additional $53.5 million to help shift them off the highly lucrative 2.5 GHz spectrum band.… |
| Let’s send 3D printers TO THE MOON Posted: 08 May 2012 07:39 PM PDT Sci-Fi fuelled big ideas group wants "moonshot ecosystem"Science Fiction author Neal Stephenson has inspired the creation of a new project, dubbed Hieroglyph, which aims to promote discussion about big ideas humanity will actually build.… |
| VMware CTO reveals future directions in VMUG vid Posted: 08 May 2012 06:44 PM PDT Speech in Italy says acquired techs 'don't work well enough together yet'VMware Chief Technology Officer Steve Herrod has told an Italian VMUG meeting the VMware's cloud infrastructure suite is still only loosely integrated and that the company has plans to do better.… |
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